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by epgui 3y ago
It’s the biggest stretch possible without it being technically dishonest. Everyone knows it: the researchers know it and gag a little as they write it, and the grant reviewers know it but pretty much require it without really ever saying th
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by epgui 3y ago
Within certain parameters, that's right. And that probably makes as much sense (if not more) as the alternative for all I know. There is a way to think of mathematics as corresponding to computation in a way where anything that cannot
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by epgui 3y ago
> No, axioms are hypotheses IMO they're neither "faith" nor "hypotheses", although "whether a set of axioms is self-consistent" is probably a hypothesis. Axioms are just building blocks. They don't
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by epgui 3y ago
I don't think I agree, but this is difficult to communicate in words. Cantor's diagonalization argument doesn't rely on the contents of an infinite list of numbers, or on numbers themselves. You don't need to know anythi
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by epgui 3y ago
I mean, wouldn't that judgment be very subjective? I can easily imagine many people thinking that it is the best truck out there. I don't think it's reasonable to expect that everyone will agree.
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by epgui 3y ago
They're still working on both, so your "unlikely" is pure speculation at best.
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by epgui 3y ago
No, it was supposed to have a range of ~500 miles. Instead, the longer range version will have a (EPA) range of 440 miles. Admittedly many will still be disappointed by the difference, but not nearly as much as you're suggesting.
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by epgui 3y ago
Pretty much every Tesla product that has been promised or announced has been delivered, albeit late. I don't know why you would expect this one to be a dupe.
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by epgui 3y ago
I find it strange that this is presented as a "dud", on the one hand, but on the other hand he places it somewhere in the middle of the pack with respect to the competition, and concludes that he "wants to buy one".
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by epgui 3y ago
The flip side of that is that despite how awesome modern medicine is, we still can't get people to get vaccinated (for free!) and put a mask on their face during an infectious disease emergency. You will find that people just suck no m
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by epgui 3y ago
The comment... > There is no such crisis in experimental physics. ... also seems to completely miss that there is a spectrum from "hard" science to "soft" science (contrary to what many might expect, "soft"
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by epgui 3y ago
There is no shortage of studies whose conclusions were later found out to be false or overly-simplistic. Nutrition science isn't bad because nutrition scientists are bad. The truth is that nutrition is a very very young science, and it
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by epgui 3y ago
> He looks at it through the eyes of a rigorous scientist, unlike most people in nutrition science I don’t know where you get your nutrition science, but that’s a very bizarre perspective.
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by epgui 3y ago
There is not much low hanging fruit in biochem / medicine in 2024. It’s a gargantuan mountain of knowledge you have to get through before you have any hope of seeing the big picture.
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by epgui 3y ago
Since we're all being a bit pedantic here... the SEC would be responsible for negligently allowing a third-party pump to happen-- they would not be responsible for a pump and dump. Pump and dump requires intention (and requires dumping
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by epgui 3y ago
I can't speak for the other commenter, but I don't think they said that "web3 is responsible for all the crypto nonsense". My impression is that they're just hinting at a relationship between the two.
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by epgui 3y ago
I’m on an iPhone 14 and it’s telling me my screen resolution is 390 x 844. I very much doubt that.
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by epgui 3y ago
Counterpoint: while universities have tons of issues, they were and are doing relatively fine except in the minds of those moved by “anti-elite” politico-conspirational rhetoric.
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by epgui 3y ago
Just because something is not completely specified does not mean it is nonsense. A sufficient number of grains of rice will satiate any given animal, regardless of its size.
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by epgui 3y ago
Is a "putdown" essentially an insult? Because I used the word "pseudoscience" literally. Not as an insult, but as an academic word-label. > People are slinging pejoratives and tropes like "pseudoscience" all
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by epgui 3y ago
> If you're going to say something on HN, please make it substantive. I believe calling out pseudoscience as such is substantive. To be perfectly clear, I think not doing it would even be irresponsible. Also, substantiveness does no
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by epgui 3y ago
Is it? I don’t agree with you here. My contribution was weak, but I do believe scientists have an ethical duty to say something, even if it’s not in the form of a complete lecture.
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by epgui 3y ago
Sometimes it takes an enormous amount of effort to put years and years of expertise down in writing. I’m sorry but here it’s just not feasible, it would require pages and I don’t think it would do much to persuade anyone here.
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by epgui 3y ago
I know I’m going to get downvoted for going against the crowd, but as a biochemist my impression here is that there’s at least as much pseudoscience as there is science.
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by epgui 3y ago
Hi Ben! Cool seeing you on HN!
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by epgui 3y ago
> And I’m saying that’s impossible That's both a serious failure of the imagination, as well as a failure to recognize that a large number of problems (of the same kind) have been solved successfully across the world by various legi
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by epgui 3y ago
> It does pose some challenges in statically typed languages when it comes to deserialization of event data Why is this a challenge? I've worked with similar things in the past and never ran into any issues-- isn't this a very
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by epgui 3y ago
The costs are probably much lower than you think.
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by epgui 3y ago
Biochemist here: for a whole bunch of biology & administrative reasons, the supplement industry is more scam than science.
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by epgui 3y ago
I’m not convinced there’s a problem to solve here. Nobody is advocating for poorly-targeted legislation. IMO it’s better to focus on “101: how legislation works” before trying to argue in nonspecific ways that legislation fails to work as i

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